SURGICAL attending ROUNDS -- CONTENTS -- 1 PREOPERATIVE ANESTHETIC ASSESSMENT OF THE SURGICAL PATIENT -- 2 WOUND HEALING AND REPAIR -- 3 BREAST CANCER -- 4 THYROID AND PARATHYROID DISEASE -- 5 GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE -- 6 ESOPHAGEAL CANCER -- 7 PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE -- 8 GASTRIC CANCER -- 9 OBESITY SURGERY -- 10 SMALL-BOWEL OBSTRUCTION -- 11 APPENDICITIS -- 12 INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE -- 13 DIVERTICULAR DISEASE OF THE COLON -- 14 CANCER OF THE COLON AND RECTUM -- 15 ANORECTAL DISEASE -- 16 CHOLELITHIASIS AND ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS -- 17 LIVER DISEASE: PORTAL HYPERTENSION -- 18 PANCREATITIS -- 19 PANCREAS CANCER -- 20 INGUINAL HERNIAS -- 21 CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE -- 22 ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM -- 23 ADRENAL TUMORS -- 24 CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE -- 25 VALVULAR HEART DISEASE -- 26 LUNG CANCER -- 27 SURGERY FOR CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISORDER -- 28 MELANOMA -- 29 BURN INJURY -- 30 TRAUMA -- 31 COMMON POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS: OLIGURIA, DYSPNEA, FEVER, AND HYPOTENSION -- 32 PEDIATRIC SURGERY -- 33 PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASE -- APPENDIX 1 BASICS OF MECHANICAL VENTILATION -- APPENDIX 2 HEMOSTASIS AND COAGULATION DISORDERS -- APPENDIX 3 SURGICAL NUTRITION -- INDEX.